Amazon EC2 Mac Instances — Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast? — and Arecibo Observatory Collapsed

 
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Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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Why is Apple’s M1 chip so fast?

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Arecibo Observatory Collapsed

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South Korea’s fusion device KSTAR runs for 20 seconds at 100M degrees Celsius

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Ethereum 2.0 launches
 

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AWS Lambda pricing now per ms

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Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Covid-19 deaths

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Why do I care the open web is dying?

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OpenZFS 2.0

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The psychology behind ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’
 

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macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a. why I left macOS

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Yet another macOS privacy protections bypass

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Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory

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PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)
 

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Self-Hosting Still Pays

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ARM and Lock-Free Programming

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Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer

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Running a full desktop environment on a Kindle (2019)

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Oasis: a small statically-linked Linux system
 

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